Nick had gotten to work just in time for assignments. Warrick and him were paired up on another car accident on some side rode. "Time to get some extra money from Warrick," Nick thought to himself. Sara was paired with Catherine and Greg with Grissom. He didn't hear what their cases were but him and Warrick left for their crime scene. It looked straight forward, but one of the victims knew the person that hit her and was stating it was on purpose.
"Woo, this is not gonna be easy proving sabotage," Warrick was saying to Nick looking at the crash site.
"It never is huh?"
"Nope. I guess we should start. You take the treads and stuff I'll grab the actual cars."
"Got it."
They broke off to do their parts of analyzing the scene and stayed there for another 3- 4 hours before heading off to the lab. The case looked pretty straightforward.
Greg was standing in the locker room looking at his shut locker. He opened it thinking he'd do something to pass the time. But than he remembered why he came in here and punched it closed in frustration. Catherine was walking in when she saw him punching the locker. She stopped and back up a step than said, "You know it doesn't help when you take a sucker hit to a locker."
He looked up and saw he. "Yeah well for now I think that'll do just fine for me," he said looking down and taking a seat on the bench.
Catherine walking so that she can look straight at him said, "You wanna tell me about it?"
"There's nothing to tell. I yelled at a suspect in interrogation because he raped and killed his wife and he's just being an asshole about it. So Grissom threw me out here to get some air."
"Rapes are never easy, Greg. Especially when the husband is denying everything. But think about it, if you were him and had raped you wife and killed her would you tell the world what you did?" Catherine asked him now taking a seat next to him.
Looking straight at her he said, "I would never do that to someone. They're human beings like me. Not just some thing I can have my fun with than kill."
"If only you were everyone else in the world. We'd be out of a job though."
"Can't say that would be a bad thing right about now."
"Greg, you're just empathizing with the victim. That's normal. So why don't you go work something to help pile evidence on this guy and get him behind bars where he belongs. How does that sound?" Catherine said making him look up with her hand.
"Better. Thanks Catherine," he said while he kissed her cheek, than he got up and walked out to go do something.
The rest of the shift went by pretty quickly with nothing really eventful. Nick found Sara in the break room talking to Warrick about something. He walked in and with a big smile on his face went, "Hey there."
"Hey right back at yourself," Sara said smiling at him.
"What are you happy about over there Nicky boy?" Warrick asked.
"Nothing my man," Nick said taking a seat next to Sara.
"You guys are back together aren't you?" Warrick asked looking at them with suspicious grin on his face.
Nick and Sara looked at each other and Warrick said a little louder, "YOU GUYS ARE! Damn, about time. I knew it was only a matter of time until you went back to him. Nick why didn't you tell me, we just spent this entire shift together?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Nick started. "I didn't think it was any of your business first off."
"Yeah my business my ass. You and me are friends my man. You gotta tell me these things." Warrick said.
"Well Warrick-" Sara started.
"Wait, Sara you were dating Greg, what happened to him?"
"Well, Uhh I broke up with him Warrick." Sara said matter of factly.
"Mhmm bet he took that well."
"Why am I still talking to you about this?" Sara said.
"I don't know, why don't we go our shifts over?" Nick asked Sara.
"Where you guys going?" Warrick asked.
"Breakfast," Nick said.
"Well you two lovers have fun," Warrick said smiling. Sara and Nick walked out and got in their cars and headed off to the diner they chose. When they got there they walked in with Nick's arm around her shoulders. They grabbed a table and ordered coffee. Once the coffee came Nick said to her, "Sara, I want you to read something. Greg put it in my mailbox the other night. I knew you'd want to read it so I brought it with me," he said while getting it out of his jacket pocket. He handed it to her and she opened it and read it.
"Wow…" She said when she was finished with a sort of blank look on her face.
"Yeah, my same reaction." He said while nodding his head.
"Do you think he means it?" Sara said looking up at him.
"I don't know. I hope."
"Me too. I didn't want to hurt him." Sara said looking out the window.
"I know you didn't," Nick was getting a little uneasy. He knew when Sara was holding back, he just hoped she didn't wanna leave him… again.
"Yeah… Look Nick," Sara was starting. "Great start for a 'I'm sorry I can't do this anymore' speech again," Nick was thinking to himself.
"I know you probably think I still really like Greg, I'll admit I do a little still. But I care more about you." Sara said looking straight at him. He could tell she was being serious and honest. Nick just reasoned with a "I love you Sara." After breakfast Sara and Nick said their goodbyes and Sara headed off towards Greg's apartment. She pulled up and got out. She walked up to his door and knocked, he answered it on the second knock. "Hey, what are you doing here?" He asked with a confused look on his face.
"I gotta talk to you Greg," Sara said walking in the open door Greg held for her.
"About what?" He said shutting the door and following her to the living room section of his apartment.
"The letter, to Nick. Did you mean it?" Sara asked looking back at him not bothering to sit down.
Greg not expecting that said honestly, "Yes Sara I did. Every word."
"Thank you. You don't understand how much that makes me feel better. I never wanted to hurt you," She said to him.
"I know you didn't Sara. It's okay. I knew I shouldn't have taken you from Nick like that. It wasn't right."
"It also wasn't right how I treated you either," she said now sitting down.
"I guess it wasn't entirely," Greg said agreeing.
"I'm sorry Greg, I really am."
"Don't worry about it Sara really," Greg was feeling a little uncomfortable.
"I did care about you, I still do."
"I still care about you too Sara. But we can't do this. We probably shouldn't have from the start. So I think you should go be with Nick now. Not me. He's who you wanted." He said pointing to the door.
Sara shocked just got up and left. She ran to her car and drove home.
